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Introduction to Week 3

Chris Hughes looks ahead to the topics of our final week.

Welcome to our final week.

In this video, Chris looks ahead to the topics of our final week.

All the examples that we’ve seen of classical cryptography methods have been broken. This week we look at ciphers that are still very much in use today and examine why they are secure – but perhaps not for long!

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The Mathematics of Cryptography: From Ancient Rome to a Quantum Future

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